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A refreshing view of technology as a living force in the world. This provocative book introduces a brand-new view of technology. It suggests that technology as a whole is not a jumble of wires and metal but a living, evolving organism that has its own unconscious needs and tendencies.... read more

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For most of my life I owned very little.

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  1. Kevin Kelly (Author)

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